It is believed Stardock had to keep their games Impulse exclusive for a while, perhaps a year. After that they might move elsewhere. But honestly I haven't seen Impulse change at all, the desktop adds were added while it was still under Stardock and can be disabled easily enough. Just full out "exit" the thing on the status bar and it should only start when told to.

Further, I advise that the Devs add custom map sharing to Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion.

Accidental double post, I guess I can't surf the internet and play Stronghold Kingdoms, apparently this machine is too feeble for that.

(soy argentino hablo spanish) trinity lo compre en impulse hace mas de un mes, y todo estuvo mas que bien, lo descargue , cerre impulse y me olvide de él, solo recuerdo el nombre. no me aparecio ninguna ventana emergente, ni nada en el desktop.

ok impulse, very good. (es mas si quiero enterarme de otros programas, etc, tengo abrir impulse e ir hasta la pestaña "explorer" porque si no no se de otros programas games)

Heck I would, the old one is more likely to break before it kills you.

Further, I advise that the Devs add custom map sharing to Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion.

una ves hace mucho, para probar un juego tuve que instalar steam (needed steam installed) woooo! la instalacion tardaba million hours?! y lo que faltaba nada mas era una ventana "top secret" "warning" "copyng backup 2/3 for your security"

tambien no se entendia facilmente como se usabae  el software...etc...

despues de esa experience lo pienso más de dos veces antes...

recien open impulse y aperecio 1 pop-up small abajo a la derecha with game disscounts, que casi ni me di cuenta

ok

en ese momento no estaba al tanto de juegos, etc, aparte fue solo una experiencia, capaz yo que no estoy tan empapado en esto y se poco ingles me resulte mas facil impulse

It is well
in that moment it was not the so much of games, etc, separated was alone an experience, capable me that am not so soaked in this and you not very English it is me but easy it impulse

When Stardock released SOASE originally, they put no copy protection, and essentially allowed players to "obtain" the single player mode for free (Assuming you didn't want to buy the game legitimately)

Multiplayer mode required you pay them money.

I remember Stardock posting that if people wanted to pay for a quality product, they would.  Otherwise they were happy with their game simply being played (Although I'm positive they are more happy with playing and paying customers!).

If it were released on steam, that statement would become void as Steam, generally, extensive copy protection on its products.

The only difference would be really you have to be log in on Steam while playing, vs. not even running Impulse or having installed on your computer to play as it currently is.

I do remember Frogboy saying he would put their games on Steam if Valve let them sell their games via Impulse. Dont know where he stands on this now that they dont own Impulse anymore.